[1] The journal publishes three issues a year on topics in the field of classification, numerical taxonomy, multidimensional scaling and other ordination techniques, cluster analysis, tree structures and other network models.

Each issue typically comprises four sections: articles, short notes and comments, software abstracts, and book reviews.

[2] The previous Editors-in-Chief were: Douglas L. Steinley (2015–2020); Willem Heiser (2002–2015); and Phipps Arabie (1984–2002).

[3] Journal of Classification is abstracted and indexed in DBLP,[4] Journal Citation Reports,[5] Mathematical Reviews,[6] Research Papers in Economics,[7] SCImago Journal Rank,[8] Scopus,[9] Science Citation Index,[10] Zentralblatt MATH,[11] among others.

You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.See tips for writing articles about academic journals.